KEM Hospital nurses and relatives of Aruna Shanbaug at her funeral at Bhoiwada crematorium, in Mumbai. (Kunal Patil/HT photo)

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Nurses at the Thane civil hospital pay tribute to Aruna Shanbaug who died at the KEM hospital, after being in a vegetative state for more than four decades following her brutal rape in 1973. (Photo: Praful Gangude)

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Nurses and the staff of KEM hospital in Mumbai bid adieu to Aruna Shanbaug. Shanbaug, after being in a vegetative state for more than four decades following her brutal rape in 1973, died in Mumbai. (Kunal Patil/HT photo)

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Nurses and the staff of KEM hospital in Mumbai bid adieu to Aruna Shanbaug. Shanbaug, after being in a vegetative state for more than four decades following her brutal rape in 1973, died in Mumbai. (Kunal Patil/HT photo)